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Improved Y-STR typing for disaster victim identification, missing persons investigations, and historical human skeletal remains.
International journal of legal medicine - 1 Nov 2018
Ambers Angie, Votrubova Jitka, Vanek Daniel, Sajantila Antti, Budowle Bruce
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Bones are a valuable source of DNA in forensic, anthropological, and archaeological investigations. There are a number of scenarios in which the only samples available for testing are highly degraded and/or skeletonized. Often it is necessary to perform more than one type of marker analysis on such samples in order to compile sufficient data for identification. Lineage markers, such as Y-STRs and mitochondrial...
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